Importantly, established health services utilization models [ 14- 16] were used to guide our selection of nine socio-demographic variables for inclusion in our multivariate models, including language preference for interview.
If they had carers, the one most in contact with the patient (i.e. for at least 10 hours a week, including telephone calls) was eligible for inclusion, provided they had been in a caring role for the patient for at least the previous 3 months, and had a command of the English language sufficient for interview and potential participation in psychological therapies.
Patients consenting to interview were asked to specify their preferred language for the interview from English, Hindi or Punjabi.
Within each race, there was a quota that half of the participants would use English and the remaining half would use their native language for the interviews, i.e. Mandarin for Chinese, Malay for Malays and Tamil for Indians.
These details will be used to focus the document analysis of the accreditation outcomes and reports, and provide topics and suitable phrasing of language for the interviews and survey questionnaire.
Multiple logistic regression models adjusted for sex, age, selected language of interview, place of residence, family income, educational attainment, census region, and health insurance status.
Multiple logistic regression models adjusted for sex, age, selected language of interview, place of residence, family income, educational attainment, census region, health insurance status, and usual source of care.
The completeness of such medication use history depends on different factors concerning a particular patient, including the time available for interview, language barriers, illness severity, cognitive status and a patient's familiarity with his or her medication regimen [ 3].
We targeted the recruitment of approximately 80 subjects, about 20 participants per language for in-depth interviews.
The questionnaire was translated by the Congolese research team into local languages, Swahili and Mashi, used for interview with youth.
